Wednesday, May 30, 2007

What do you mean, pronounce chrysanthemum?

May 30

This is how you pronounce chrysanthemum: Chris Anne thug (but don't pronounce the 'g') mumm. At least that's as close as I can get without having a schwa key. Someone typed the words "pronounce" and "chrysanthemum" in Google and were led here to Food Writer’s Diary. I hope he or she tries again, because now the answer is here, waiting. Bruni? Why that’s brew knee.Prosecco is pronounced pro seck oh, basically.Mechoui? Hmm. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure. I'd try muh chewy. I know what web sites lead people here. Some people come on their own. Some come from nrn.com or my fellow NRN bloggers Peter Romeo and Gregg Cebrzynski. Others are led here by my friends at Eater, Grub Street, Snack, The Daily Fresser, Allergic Girl and others. Andy Battaglia and Michaelangelo Matos are kind enough to have permanent links here, making me wonder if I should be writing more about music. My old college friend Shane Curcuru has been linking to me quite a little bit, too. But mostly people come here from word searches. They seem to want to know if the people I write about have significant others or do their jobs well or if I have pictures of them wearing jeans. Some come here because of typos (unless people go to streep clubs to watch Meryl Streep movies). I wish you would just e-mail me (at bthorn@nrn.com) and ask. I’d be happy to try to help you out, although I’ll tell you right now I’m not going to spread rumors about Zak Pelaccio’s marital status. I will say, however, that I think Richard Grausman is doing a very good job. Tomatoes? Yin, I'm pretty sure.Of course some keyword searches just leave me flummoxed. “Mother” and “seduction” in the same search window? I’m speechless. Here are some recent searches that brought people to Food Writer’s Diary:

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3 comments:

I think Food TV cancelled the Bobby Flay show where he spends 1 day coming up with a recepie and challenges someone with years of experience making that same item to a contest. I think after 10 shows he was 1-9.

I get the feeling that Bobby felt that it was semi-insulting to spend so little time preparing and expecting to have a competitive outcome.

john, I’m afraid I don’t know anything about World of Warcraft and so I can’t help you with regard to Furious Crawdads. I also don’t watch the Food Network much, but I have read comments that the show you refer to seemed like a deliberate attempt to humiliate Mr. Flay and was a waste of his talent.

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Bret Thorn

Bret Thorn is senior food editor of Nation’s Restaurant News with responsibility for spotting and reporting on culinary trends. He joined the magazine in 1999 after spending about five years as a journalist in Thailand.

A graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., Thorn also studied French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris. He studied in China for a year, too, and now lives in Brooklyn.